Letters to the editor

Remember the little guys

Because it’s good for the economy, stupid! Economy will always
trump environment even during the good times. If we can't exercise some
economic restraint (or more accurately, economic innovation) in favor of what
is clearly necessary during the good times, then do you think our government
will stray much further from the status quo as we slide into the coming years
of global recession?

The sooner we realize that this government is fundamentally
opposed to anything that threatens the status quo and that the continued and
accelerated degradation of our environment is of little consequence to their
values and policy the closer we will be to the truth. Then it’s just a matter
of do we have the will and conscience to kick them out and demand what is
clearly needed.

Bruce Kay

Whistler

Reflections of a conspiracy theorist

If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd say that the Conservatives
were more fiendishly diabolical than arrogant or ignorant. The current state of
Canadian politics is a result of well thought strategy, an unimaginable turn,
then recognizing the potential that brought, and good luck (luck being the
meeting of preparation and opportunity).

Consider that in taunting the opposition to defeat the
government in a confidence vote, the only option Mr. Harper would have was to
ask the GG to dissolve Parliament and call an election. The populace, incensed
at the Liberals, would then obliterate them in the election.

Things didn’t go that way. Rather they took a turn for the
absurd.

Somehow the opposition was able to cobble together an association
that unbelievably included the BQ. They announced that the PM in waiting would
be Mr. Dion, the same man that Canadians and the Liberals had rejected only a
few weeks ago. It appeared that the Liberals would be back in power in spite of
themselves.

Spite themselves they would.

In response to Mr. Harper’s television address, the Liberals
managed to allow Mr. Dion to present himself as a distraction. They then
proceeded to eviscerate him and publicly took turns carving him up.

The GG’s acceptance of Mr. Harper’s request to prorogue is no
surprise. It set the scene for the GG to give the opposition association a shot
at forming a government if the government is defeated in the next confidence
vote and if there is such an association at that time.